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Rail station platform in summer, with passengers, a train and hanging baskets with flowers.

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Rail stations across Great Britain receive £20 million funding boost for accessibility improvements

New lifts, accessible toilets and customer information screens to improve passenger experience.

It's everyone's journey.

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Progress on accessibility as campaign launches to improve disabled passengers’ journeys

The ‘it’s everyone’s journey’ campaign looks to increase awareness about making transport more inclusive.

CrossCountry train.

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Longer trains and more seats for passengers across the Midlands

CrossCountry passengers to benefit from £2.5 million in new government funding.

Aerial view of rescue boat approaching casualty on the water

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One of the oldest Search and Rescue teams in the UK among winners of vital £1 million funding boost

Grants to fund lifeboats and kit for volunteer search teams.

Road at night.

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£17 million to make journeys in West Sussex quicker and greener

A2300 improvement scheme to cut congestion and support growth.

Pint Block.

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Pivotal THINK! campaign calls on young men to step in and stop their mates from drink driving

Young men are over-represented in alcohol-related deaths and serious injuries on the road. Intervention can help save lives.

Latest from the Department for Transport

  1. The Railways (Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
    • Statutory instrument
  2. Aviation update: 27 February 2020
    • Written statement
  3. Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2
    • Speech

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What the Department for Transport does

We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move.

DfT is a ministerial department, supported by 24 agencies and public bodies.

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Services

  1. Apply for or renew a Blue Badge
  2. Using a phone or a sat nav when driving
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Guidance and regulation

  1. The Highway Code
    • Manual
  2. Who can get a Blue Badge
    • Guidance
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News and communications

  1. Aviation update: 27 February 2020
    • Written statement
  2. Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2
    • Speech
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. Sea passenger statistics 2019: Short sea routes
    • National statistics
  2. Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS)
    • Statistical data set
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017): air quality directions
    • Policy paper
  2. Bristol Airport: designation as a 'coordinated' airport
    • Open consultation
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. DfT: prompt payment data 2019 to 2020
    • Transparency
  2. DfT: FOI and EIR disclosure log, December 2019
    • FOI release
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Our ministers

Grant Shapps MP

The Rt Hon

Grant Shapps MP
Chris Heaton-Harris MP
Chris Heaton-Harris MP
Andrew Stephenson MP
Andrew Stephenson MP
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Rachel Maclean MP
Rachel Maclean MP
Kelly Tolhurst MP
Kelly Tolhurst MP

Our management

Bernadette Kelly CB
Bernadette Kelly CB
Permanent Secretary
Gareth Davies
Director General Aviation, Maritime, International and Security
Clive Maxwell
Director General High Speed and Major Rail Projects
Polly Payne
Director General Rail Group
Ruth Hannant
Director General Rail Group
Nick Joyce
Director General Resources and Strategy Group
Tricia Hayes
Director General for Roads, Places and Environment Group
Brett Welch
Legal Director
Professor Phil Blythe CEng FIET
DfT Chief Scientific Adviser
Ian King
Lead non-executive director, DfT
Richard Aitken-Davies
Non-executive board member, DfT
Richard Keys
Non-executive board member, DfT
Tracy Westall
Non-executive board member, DfT
Tony Poulter
Non-executive board member, DfT

Contact DfT

Office address and general enquiries

Department for Transport
Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 4DR
United Kingdom

Contact Form: Office address and general enquiries

Switchboard

0300 330 3000

We aim to respond within 20 working days.

We may send your personal data to other transport organisations if they are best placed to answer your enquiry. Find out more about how DfT looks after any personal data you send us - https://www.gov.uk/dft/privacy-policy.

Media enquiries

If you're not a member of the media, use the switchboard line
0300 330 3000

Media enquiries: Newsdesk (Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm)
020 7944 3021

Urgent media enquiries out of hours
020 7944 4292

The Department for Transport press office only deals with enquiries from the media.

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

Freedom of Information requests

FOI Requests
Department for Transport
FOI Advice Team
D/04, Ashdown House
Sedlescombe Road North
St Leonards on Sea
TN37 7GA
United Kingdom

FOI contact form

Switchboard

0300 330 3000

FOI advice team

Email

foi-advice-team-dft@dft.gov.uk

High profile groups within DfT

  1. Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
  2. Office for Low Emission Vehicles

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

  1. Working for DfT
  2. Procurement at DfT
  3. Jobs

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